Friendship Quotes

• It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

• An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

• I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

• It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

• Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

• Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

• The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

• Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

• You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.

• Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

• You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

• There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

• Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

• We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.

• The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

• Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Featured Authors on Friendship